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FBI Counterterrorism Official B**** Slaps Ocasio-Cortez With a Lesson After She Suggested White Supremacists Are Getting “Off the Hook”

An FBI counterterrorism official taught self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist and freshman New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a little lesson earlier in the week after the New York Democrat “incorrectly suggested Muslims get charged with terrorism because they are treated as foreign, while white supremacists get ‘off the hook,’” according to Fox News.

The New York Democrat used a hearing on Tuesday to suggest that Muslims are being treated differently in the U.S., including getting charged with terrorism for criminal acts, while white supremacist attackers avoid being charged with “domestic terrorism” for similar crimes.

Michael McGarrity, the assistant director of the Counterterrorism Division of the FBI, fired back at the freshman Democrat, explaining that the authorities can’t charge people with a “domestic terrorism” charge simply because such a charge does not exist in U.S. laws.

“You’re using the word ‘charge,’ as I said before there’s no domestic terrorism charge like 18 USC § 2339 ABCD for a foreign terrorist organization,” McGarrity stated, continuing on to explain, “What we do both on the international terrorism side with the homegrown violent extremists and domestic terrorism, we’ll use any tool in the toolkit to arrest them.”

“You’re not going to find an actual charge of domestic terrorism out there if you look at Title 18–,” he went on to say after she repeatedly questioned him.

The New York Democrat referenced the San Bernardino shooting and the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting as “the cases where the perpetrators were ‘charged as domestic terrorist incidents,’ a claim that is incorrect,” according to Fox.

“So, because the perpetrator was Muslim they’re — doesn’t it seem that because the perpetrator is Muslim that the designation would say it’s a foreign organization?” Ocasio-Cortez questioned during the hearing.

Via Fox News:

According to ABC News, which detailed how Ocasio-Cortez conflated two different terms, in neither of the two cases people were charged as “domestic terrorists” and were instead charged as “homegrown violent extremists,” a term given to criminals in the U.S. who draw inspiration from “foreign terrorist organizations” such as ISIS or Al-Qaeda.

White supremacist attackers could be charged as “homegrown violent extremists” as long as they are tied to a foreign terrorist organization as designated by the U.S. government, though no such case has ever been found.

“No, that is not correct, that is not correct,” McGarrity responded, adding that the law doesn’t differentiate between religions while noting that the FBI would normally classify those radicalized by the global Jihad as foreign terrorists.